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| Iran bans resale of gas it sends Turkey by pipeline |
| 2007-03-07 |
| NICOSIA — Iran has warned Turkey not to resell natural gas supplied by the Islamic republic. Iranian Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh said Ankara does not have the right to re-export gas that arrives to Turkey from a pipeline in Iran. The minister said the ban was contained in the 1996 agreement for Iranian gas exports to Turkey. How are you going to enforce that one with a fungible commodity like natural gas? Officials said Ankara has been negotiating with its neighbors for surplus Iranian gas exported to Turkey. They said the Iranian supplies were cheaper than that offered by Russia. How would you like to have suppliers like that? Pooty Poot of Russia, who would shut your supply off as a *ahem* leveraging tool, and on the other hand, the MMs of Iran, who are crazier 'n sh*thouse rats. Turkey has sought to become the energy corridor of Europe and the Middle East. Ankara already receives energy from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, which brings natural gas from Kazakhstan. Who knows, if the Turks get enough natural gas leverage, maybe they can weasel into the EU, with all the rights and privelages thereto. Heh. |
| Posted by:Alaska Paul |